“VOL. LXXXIX, _ WILSON'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, The New York World In pearly every state Mr. Hughes ran behind his ticket and President Wilson ran ahead of his ticket, To appreciate the extraordinary po- litical change that bas resulted from Mr. Wilson's leadership of the Demo- cratic party it is necessary only to read the returns in the Presidental election of the last twenty years, In 1896 Mr. MeKinley’e populsr plu- rality over Mr, Bryan was 601,854, Mr. MecElioley baviog 271 votes in the elec- toral eoliege to Mr, Bryan's 176. In 1890 Mr, MeKinley’s popular plu- rality was increased to 849,790 his vote being 292 to 155 for Mr. Bryanp. In 1904 the Republican ascendancy increased tremendously, Mr. Roose- velt’s popular plurslity was 2,545,516 spd be bed 336 votes in the electoral college to Judge Parker's 140, In 1908 the Democratic party picked up alittle but nut muebh. Mr. Taft's popular plura ity over Mr. Bryan was 1,269,804, His electoral vole was 321 to Mr. Bryan's 162, Thus in four successive Presidential elections the smallest Republican plu- rality in the popular vote was 601,854 and the smallest Republican msjority in the electoral college was 85, In 1912 the Roosevelt bolt destroyed party lines, and although Mr, Wilson was elected by an encrmous msjority in the electoral college, the combined Tafi-Roosevelt vote was 7,604,663 against 8 Wilton vote of only 6,208,- 019, The Republican-Progressive piu- rality of the popular vole was 1,811,- 152, or slightly more than 1908, In 1916 the Wilson popular vote is 2,160,000 beyond the previous Demo- cratic record. It Is 900,000 more than the Roosevell-Tall total of 1912, It is more thau 400,000 in advance of the reunited Repubiican party. There is no more talk of a winority President. Mr, Wileon Las put the two parties on an equality again, The great Re- publican mejorities of the last twenty years bav. been broken, and the country will profit from this restora- tion of the balance. There is no bet- ter aseurauce of good government than two parties practically equal in power and each al the mercy of the in- dependent vole, ——— A —————— Fall Plowing, The tim: is here for fall plowing of sods for corn in the spring, ino the central and sou. hern part of the state snd in the northern part for plowing corn stubble for oats, ** Various con- eiderations move farmers to fall plow- ing,’ says Franklin Menges, soll ¢x- pers of the Pennsylavnia Department of Agriculture. *‘One is that usually the weather is favorable and the land in splendid condition for plowing during the months of October and November, and consequently a larger area can be plowed in a shorter time, Another is that clay soils will produce larger crup yields when the usually compacted sod, by over pssiuriug, is broken up in the fali so that the water from the snows of the winter and the rains of spring can more easily pene- trate the soll aud carry to greater agepih the moisture and the nitrogen the snow usually containe. In ibis way the fertiiity is enhanced without suy cost to the farmer, ** Still another reason for fall plowing sods on clay soil which have not been pastured, and upon which a second crop of ihe clover and the grasses have grown up, is that this mass of organic matter, which has taken up the fertility that has been made &- vailable during the fall monthe, will remain comparatively green sod the agencies of decay, because of the presence of air, will as soon as the warm weather of the spring comer, make available the stored up fertility tor the use of other plante. To buila the soul luto organic compounds in the plant tiesue, the furrow slice should be set at au acute angle, or in other words set on edge, before these ciovers and grasses have become com- pletely dry because of the metlon of frost and winds of winter, *‘ Fall plowing of sods in the south ern section of the state is a method of storing moisture and fertility when done in the right way. Weathering of the mineral components of the soil is another benefit derived from fall plowing when done as previously indicated, becuse allernate freezing snd thawing reaches larger soil area and reduces a larger quantity of the soil mineral to a more finely divided condition snd which are, therefore, more readily acted on by plant roots, Handy solls sud loams should not be tall plowed lo any psit of this State, except where these solls are covered with snow from Decepaber to March,” ————p—A ——— The first stretch of concrete road way in Central Pennsylvania was finished Inst week at Burnham, It js sbout thre «quarters of a mile in length and extends almost the entire length of tha Standard Stes! Works, The con- struction of this piece of road rcquired 8760 sacka of cvinent, MILLHEIM TO HAVE ELEOTRIO LIGHT, Grants Franchise to State-Oentre Eleotric Company at Meeting of Borough Coun- olf, Monday Night. The Millheim borough council, at a meeting held on Monday night, grant- ed the Btate-Uentre Electric Company 8 franchise to do business in that place. The franchise is patterned after the one granted by the Centre Hall borough council to: the same company, which gives the electrie company the right to operate so long as the present Pablic Bervice Comm ig- sion, or a similar public servant, is in existence. LOUALS, Rev, D. B, Kurtz spent a few days beginning of the week in Lancaster. The members of Bt, Luke's Evan- gelical Lutheran church and Funday- school will hold a social in the church on Baturday evening. Robert Goodbart, one of the Penvsy’s engineete, of Altoons, was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary Goodhart, over Bunday., Elwood Brooks, of Pleasant Gap, is doing the plaster work for the new local EK. G. E, hall, on the third floor of the Reporter building. Mr. and Mre. John H. Horner and Charles Taylor, of Tusseyville, spent Bunday with Mr. snd Mrs. Horner's daughter, Mra, E. E. Bailey. Tbe Woman's Home and Foreign Missionsry Bociety, at Tusseyville, wiil hold their annual thank-offering service in the Union Chureb, on the evening of Thanksgiving Day, at 7:30 o'clock, A cordial invitation is ox tended to everybody. 8. P. Hennigh, one Valley's progressive and substantial farmers, was a caller at this office Monday. He related that while he is no hunter he was pleased to see five fine deer pasture contentedly in his wheat field quite close to the barn. Belgium prisoners in Holland are making the most of their time spent behind the bars by learning the American language through the means of correspondence with Ameri- can girlie, Centre Hall boasts of a few of these feminine ‘‘ teachers,” but it is doubtful whether the “instruction rune along the line of readin’, ’ritin’ and 'rithmetie. The H. J. Lambert property, on east Church street, is now one of the most subsiactial and coziest in town. I'be addition o! the modern cor- venience, including bath aud electric light, together with the building of concrete sidewalks and the painting inegide and outside of the buliding, makes it a very desirable home. The Lamberts are contemplating the erec- tion of another dwelling house on the lot immediately east of their home. F. M. Fisher, of Penn Hall, has de- cided to go out of the mercantile busi- ness and begivniog December 20d will start to reduce his big stock by way of big reductioce in cost price, fhe Fisher stand is undoubtedly ope of the oldest in the county, baving been in constant operation since 1842, when Mr. Fisher's father, Msjor Jared B. Fisher, commenced business there. I'he present Mr. Fisher has thirty-five years’ credit to his mercantile record, The Centre County Bunday-school Association held a midyear conference in the United Brethern Church, Belle- fonte, last Thursday. State Becretary W. U. Landes was in attendance. All but one of the county officers were present ; nine of the districts were representecC. At that time the follow- ing was adopted : 1st, that an effort be made to reach the advanced standard } Z2ad, an effort to get a 10 per cen’. ip- crease in membership ; 8rc, that a move be made to get 1000 to join the chuich ; 4:b, that an effort be made to have every school visited by the dis trict and county officers; 6tb, that the statistical report be completed by May 10ib, next ; 6tb, that an effort be made for procuring 500 readers of the Pennsylvania Herald; 7th, that a budget of $500.00 be set for county work. About fifty workers were pres- ent, A badly wrecked buggy and injuries to the occupants was the result of & runoff which occurred at Tusseyville Inst Thursday evening when a fast horse, the property of Emmett Jordan, got beyoud the control of Rev. Yergey, who was driving the rig home from evangelistic service, being held in the old Evangelical church. Mr, Jordan snd the reverend gentleman were in the buggy, the Istter expressing the desire to let the animal “out” on a vice stretoh of rosa to Tusseyville, The horse was going at a fast olip and in rounding a turn the animal could not be checked sufficiently to prevent the buggy from going over. It wae badly wrecked. The horse gained its freedoms wnd dashed for home while the two gentlemen were thrown ou‘, Mr. Jordan receiving an injured of Georges shoulder while Rev, Yeargoy sustained Incerniious of the face. WRITES FROM WASHINGTON V// W, Harry Potter Writes, * Wasn't the Elec- tion a Glorious Victory for the Progress- ive West and the Women,” The following letter was received by the Reporter from W. Harry Potter, a Penne Valley boy and son of J. T. Potter, of this place ; “Edmonds, Wash., Nov. 18, 1916, Editor Reporter : ‘' No doubt you sre surprised to learn that I am back on the old job in Wash- iogton, Am mighty glad to be back and I appreciate the West more than ever, It seems like being on a vaca- tion after that strenuous summer in Pittaburgh. ““We are building railroads .to open up a tract of timber which contains about 850 million feet snd will take about four years to log i’. “What do you think of the election ? Was it not a glorious victory for the Progressive West and the Women ? | was sorry to see the East rally to standpatism, It sure ls & bitter pil for the old guard to swallow after con- gratulating Mr. Hughes on his elec. tion to the presidency on election eve- ning. The big eastern states w hich have heretofore alwaye elected the president, going for Mr, Hughes, vio- tory seemed assured ; but they reckon- ed without the West, I was In Seat tle election evening, watching the r- turns come in se they were thrown upon the screen. The Post Iutelligen- cer came out with an extra at 9:30 : ‘ Hughes wine with 11 votes to spare ; nothing but & lecdelide In the West can elect Wilson,” Well, landslide it wae, At 11:80, just as we were leav- ing the city, a Bitar extra came out with san immense picture of Wilso and large print : ‘ He iscoming back, Later returns show a Wilson trend and he may yet be elected.’ “I am mailing you a Beattle Btar which gives you a pretty fair idea of the Western sentiment and ideas, It is an Independent paper politically ; progressive in policy and entbusiasti- cally supported Mr, Wilson. “ Very truly yours, “ W. H. Porres.” WOMEN AND THE BALLOT, Under the above caption follows sp editorial from the Heattle Btar which Mr. Potter enclosed in his letter, Binece it was Lhe progressive West, with its woman vote, that was & deciding fac- tor in Wilson's re-election, the article is published herewith in full ; To the West and glorious woman. hood of the Weal the bation justly asitributes the re-election of Presi- dent Wilson, With the bittervess of defeat that plagues the professional politiciar, there are those who now procisim woman suflrage a failure because the women, forsooth, failed to vote straight republican tickets, Forgive them dear women of the West, for they are more to be pitied than censured, They had counted on the ple counter and now they must go busgry four years more, Their wouihs bad watered for the melon, but pow their lips are dry and their throats sre parched, If what they write appears so un- reasonably absurd, pray remember that their heads sre just now in = whirl and their bralug sre feverish and their hearts are woanded and bleeding. Woman suffrage needs no apology. It is a matter of right that belongs to every American woman, just as every American has the fight to vote, If it po happens that women are less susceptible to party bunk and iastitudes, God bless them for that. t is to the independent voter on whom rests the safety of the coun try. It ls to the independent vo. ter’s intelligence that the oratory and the literature and the logia and the advertisements of the candiuates are directed. The straight party voter need not be given any reason for his or her vote, The straight party voter is the dupe to politicians, Congratulations, women of the West. You have shown that you are not party slaves, You have shown it just as clearly as the men of the West have, Keep it up women of the West, this independence of party lines, Men sre gradually dropping out of the party orgsuizations—and Jet us hope that wowen who have nev- er joined a Republican or Democrat- jc or any other party club, may never do so, ~THE PROURESSIVE WEST a “ State’ Has Haghes & ison Elgotion, Hughes and Wilson are candidates for the presidency of the freshman class at the Pennsylvania Btate Col lege. Another ls Brumbaugh, a re- cent nominee, Bryan's name came before the nominating commitee, but he was unsuccessful. The nominees are: N. D. Hughes, of 1525 North Twenty-nioth street, Philadelphia; C. A, Brumbsugh, Huntingdon, snd R. N. Wilson, of Kittavning. One of the big things going hand in hand with Wilson's election “wes the wiping out of booze from five states, thus bringing the total of dry ststes up to 34. National prohibition Ime possible 7 Itsimply looke like snother of those hinge which * can't be done,” IS PUT BEHIND THE BARS, “ Peggy " Bannon is Rallroaded to Prisun Following His Admitting Setting Fire to MeGirk and Odd Fellows Bulldings in Philipsburg. —~Long Prison Sentence, The fire bug who has been operating with such ruinous effect in Philips- burg, has finally been rounded up and is now behind the bars in the Western Penitentiary where he ie to serve two terms of from fifteen to twenty, and from five to ten, years, respectively, The incendiary, who last March set fire to the McGirk building and last month was responsible for the destruc. tion of the I. O, O. F. building, with a $50,000 lose, is Edward (Peggy) Ban- non, a one-legged men, of South Phil- ipsburg. His arrest was brought about through a small girl overhearing =» conversation between Bapnon snd a close friend, to whom he sdmitted the firing of both buildings. Friday, at Bellefonte, in the pres- ence of District Attorney Furst, Dep- uty Ryan, of the Fire Marshal's De- partment ; Bheriff Yarnell, Deputy Bheriff Kline, and F. J. Green, Ban- non confessed and plead guilty to both charges, On Tuesdsy morning be was brought before the court and gen- tenced as follows : $1000 fine apd from fifieen to twenty years imprison- ment for firing the Odd Fellows’ bulld- fog ; $500 fine and from five to ten years Imprisopment for firing the Me- Girk buildiog. The second sentence to begin immediately following the expiration of the first, Toesday afternoon Bherifl Yarnell conveyed the prisoner to Pittsburgh for incarceration. \X N El Pago, Texas, Nov, 11, 1916, “The presidential election, smoug the soldiers, passed ofl very quietly, Our troop’s vole showed 12 votes for Hughes and 8 for Wilson, The North Carolipa Infantry, among others the south, voted solid for Wilson. “To-night we are to have the boot and eaddle call, This call may come in apy hour of the night sud fe part of our training. When the call comes we are supposed to jump out snd get oar saddles snd bridles and then strike for the picket line, where our horses are in walling. After they are bridied and saddled we are supposed to ride up to besdquarters and report to Col- onel Wood. After the report is made we relurp, “The two-day hike we made last week bas served to harden us snd we are now ready for most anything. On our trip we did a little scouting and pitched our “sheiter-halves”’ on the Lewis ranch,” “We are experiencing wealher at the present time, This morning the thermometer registered 1 degree above zero, so instead of our usual drill this morning we had a five mile hike, It is s0 cold that it is sl- most impossible to saddle our horses, * We are expected to have another boot and saddle’ call (a call to srs in other words ) and tual requires our full equipment, It will come some time this week, and, when we receive it we are expected to complete our work in fifteen minutes.” Winiiam Bailey, Letter from Boal Troop on the Bord ol! Woodrow winter Thanksgiving Supper, Remember thst Progress Grange will hold ite annual public Thanks giving supper in Grange Hall next Thursday night, from five to ten o'clock. Chicken and waflles, oysters, ice cream and cake will be served, —————— A NAN, From the Mil. hem voarnal, On Monday evening George B, Bto- ver, an aged resident of Millbeim, while traspsaciing business In lower Penns valiey, discovered that he had lost his wallet, which contained six- teen or seventeen dollars, besides » number of valuable papers, On Wednesday morning of last week the carrier of the U. BH, mail from Logsnton to Rebersuurg, who was an ardent supporter of Hughes for the presidency, had a passenger for Millheim and he appeared here wiih the automobile decorated witn flags, On the following moruing when ihe tide had turned he had crepe streamers on the car when he reached Reber:- burg. On Monday evening M. L. Breon, who Is employed by Hosterman & Stover, fell off the roof over the stair- way ai the rear of the Wolfs Chapel school building. Repaire were being made to the flue and a tool was needed and Mr. Breon was handling a ladder upon which he wanted to descend, when the ladder hit a boll on one of his hatde and he suddenly let go, He pitched forward but recovered slightly and then fell backwards apd rolled down over the roof aud alighted on the ground below, a distance of about nive feet, Although considers ably bruised be wae vot eericusly ice Jured, DEATHS, Died on His Birthday, George F. Miller, a life-long resident of Ferguson township, died at his bome nesr Pine Grove Mille, early Friday morning after an illness of ten days with eatarrh and pneamonis, His death occurred on the day mark- ing the sixty-fifth anniversary of his birth. He was born in Union county, but at a tender age moved with his parents to Ferguson township, where he was engaged in farming all his life, His wife, who was Alice Homan, survives with two children: Mre, John Btover and Mre. John Miller, both of near Pine Grove Mille. One brother, Isaac Milller, of Bellefonte, and one sister residing at Mifinburg, alao survive, Fuversl services were held on Mon- day morning at the home and burial made in the Pine Hall cemetery, Rev, H. C, Blover, sesisted by Rev. Fleck, officiating. John Irvin Thompson, a well known resident of Lemont, who wss stricken three weeks ago with cerebral bemorrhages while visiting his daugh- ter, Mrs, O. H. Bbsfler, in Altoons, died at the latter's home on Friday, aged a little over seveuty-three years, He was a Civil war veteran. Deceased, a native of this county, is survived by his wife and the foliow- lpg children : Mre, Msry I. Bhaffer, Altoona ; Mre, George Bellere, Harris burg ; Mre. L. H. Crosman, Oske, Pa.; Lieutenant George B, Thompson, of the Boal Machine Guo Troop, station- ed at present on the Mexican border, and Charles M, Elkbhuret, W.Va. One brother, James 1, of Btate College, al- #0 survives. He wes a member of the Presbyterian church. number { years wae secielary-ireasurer of Pennsylvania College, Funeral Mondsy afternoon, ment sl Lemoot. FOr a he services were held on followed by inter- Friends of L. G. will be sorry lo learn of the death of his seven months old son, Carl Arthur Resrick, which occurred ul Lock Haven on Sunday morning. Burial wes made near Clintondale on Monday afternoon, A. Dr, H. F, Bituer Sells Mis Home Frank M. Fisher, of Penn Hall, on Friday, purchased the Dr. H. F. Bit- ner residence in Centre Hall, paying the sum of $4000.00. Dr. Bitoer will not deliver up the property, however, until the spring of 1918, at which time he contemplates removing to BState College on sccount of the educational sdvantages the college town will af ford for his youngest son, Lynn, Mr, Fisher will move to Centre Hall at that time and cocupy his Dew possess- fone, retiring from the mercantile business in which he bas been engaged for more than thirty years, place, New High School for Yeagertowsn, Yeageitown people generally are re- joiciog over the $10,000 school losn, by the voters of Derry lowpship st the last election, The money will be used (0 erect au addition to the high school building at Yeagertown which is now overcrowded. At the present time the school board is paying the trane- portation of twenty-two school chile dren from Yesgertown, who are at- tending the school on Highland ave nue, This expense smounts to $2.2 per day, $44 per month or $352 per year, The building of the sddition will not only save this expense but will furnish better school facilities for ihe Eighth grade which is now re- ceiving daily jostiuction in the old band buildiug adjoining the Lutheran church. The school board is pilsn- ping to begin work upon the new ad- dition the coming spring. - —— w— Of a total of about 2,000 trees sttuck by lightoirg on the Biate Forests in the past four years, 6566 were chestnut. Pitch pine comes next with 827 trees stuck, and then follow in order rock osk, white pine, hem- lock, red oak, white oak, bisck oak, locust, and sugar maple. Black birch is at the foot of Lhe list with only one tree stiuck in four years. Poplar and walnut come nex', only two of each being struck. ere. All Bnyder county papers have de- cided to tack on 50 cents on their sub seription rates after January lst, 4917, Every newspsper publisher knows that even with this raise, $1.50 a year is netting him less profit than a $1.00 did a few years ago. The paper on which each edition is printed is cost. ing three times as much as it did eighteen months age, and the end Ie not yet, Therefore, the pald-inad- vance subscriber le indeed a true friend of the paper which he patronises, NO. 46 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS Don’t forget the Thanksgiving supper in the Grange Hall by Progress Grange, Leroy Puff, who was employed at Harrisburg for some time, returned home last week, Mr, and Mre, C., A, Krape, Mr. and Mre. Joseph Bitner and Mre. Hazel, of Bpriog Mille, were guests of Prof. and Mra. P. H. Meyer one day last week, Mre. Iessinh Fleieher, of Philadel phis, and William A. Bandoe, Jr., of Pittsburgh, sitended the funeral of Julian A, Fleming, in this place, on Friday. Hon. L. Rhone snd dsughter, Miss Florence 8. Rhone, went to Harris. burg on Monday and will remain for a few days with Mies May V. Rhone, who holds a position in the State capitol building. A pumber of beautiful floral tributes were presented for the grave of Julian A. Fleming, who was buried on Fri- day. Besides those contributed by private parties, there were two especi- ally beautiful pieces, gifts of the local Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities. A new iron sign hae been erected to the front of the local hotel, bearing the legend, * Centre Hall Hoel, J. W. Rupkle.”” The outline of the letters sre perforated to permit the electric light from within to shine out, mak- ing the sign readable by night ae well as by day. Millbeim had a jollifieation meeting over Wileon's election on Bsturdasy evening. A big parade msde up of bande, sutomobiles, floats, horsemen, ete, taking part. Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte, and others spoke after the parade. It was a jolly time in Fhat Democratic stronghold, Mr. snd Mre. D., W. Bradford, Mr, and Mrs. Jucob Bharer, Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Smith were smong the 200 in- digg of Miss Mollie Yearick and Her- bert, Pletcher at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Yearick, a! Howard, on Tuesday. The local ¥, O. B, of A. camp, alter January lst, vill occupy the rooms now used by the Odd Fellows, on the third floor of the {snk building, the istter lodge movipg into their own building. This still lésves an order ~The Eastern Btar——without perms- nent quarters, both the Star ana P. O. H. of A. having met, since their or ganization, in the rooms of Progress Grange. Next Thursday the bupting season will be closed on all email game and on the followfog dsy, which is the first of December, deer are free to be killed for two weeke. From present indications there will be the same small srmy of banters to locate in the Beven Mountains from Coburn up to the Bear Mesdows. Deer have not appeared (0 be 80 plentiful in years as this season, but, of course, the does t® bucks are in the proportion of ten to one, The following, taken from the Mill heim Journal, concerns a former (en- tre Hall boy, whose friends will be glad to learn of hie success : Gross R. Allison, son of Dr. and Mre. J. R. G. Allison, of the National hotel, was recently sppointed road engineer of Henry county, Kentucky. The posi. tion carries a salary of $100 a month and expeuees, and the engineer is far- nished an sutomobile to follow his work, Mr. Allison wae in the employ of the Kentucky state highway depart- ment for several years since gradus- ting from college. Rev. G. W. Mclloay, of Nescopeck, delivered an excellent lecture, entitled “The Game of Life,” in the local Methodist church on Frioay evening. Quite a number of the members of the Penns Valley Methodist oharge, which Rev. Mclinay served several years ago, were present snd enjoyed the lecture, On Bunday Rev. Mo Iinay exchanged pulpits with Rev. E. H. Yocum, of Be lefonte, who found. ed Rev. Meclinay’s present church thirty-three years ago, snd in whose membership there still exists a sumber of the original members. ; State Organizer John W. Yelsley of the P, O, B. of A, members of the lo eal camp will be interested to learn, has been transferred to the state of Maryland. During the ten months employment in Pennsylvania Mr, Yeisiey has organized the following successful osmps : S508, Middleburg; 843, Paxtonville; 881, Troxelville; 877, Muzeppe; 734, Loganton; 880, Lindon; 881, Turbotsville; 853, White Deer; 885, McEwensville; 884, Pottagrove; 817, Laurelton; 876, Centreville; 588, Le mont; 887, Bellefonte; 838, Centre Hall; 801, Bpring Mille; 883, Unionville; S94, Milesburg; snd 805, Pleasant Gap. These twenty osmps report a oharter membership of one thousand two ban dred and twenty fi Of an Average a in OT HT Cl
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